Altering Moleskine journals

Last year I traced part of a medieval woodcut print of a cityscape using one of the Dover books, and made it into a Gocco screen. I’m not sure that the screen I made was very successful because I didn’t shade it enough to give it dimension and the resultant prints just weren’t very clear. I printed several Moleskine journals with it and put them in my Etsy shop. Here is one so you can see what I mean:

Actually this one is even more unclear because I used white ink and gold embossing powder! But I did do some with white ink on black which wasn’t much better.

Anyway, they’re not like that anymore! This afternoon I got the watercolour paints out and highlighted a few of the features, I hope more successfully:

Here’s a close up of that last picture:

I also tried a different sort of highlighting on the black one:

I did this one with a silver pen.

I stamped this one with my angel stamp as I think she looks pretty medieval too!

These are all for sale in my shop on Etsy, by the way. What do you think? Does my colouring improve them or spoil them?

Liz- you share my ethos! I ADORE dying and stitching fabrics- not to mention machine felting and painting fabrics! I wonder whether you would be interested to hear that have been involved in the making of Talking Threads- a TV show dedicated to those very things! check out the website http://www.talkingthreads.co.uk I hope you like it. I would be over the moon if you were to spread the word of Talking Threads x

What can i say simply awesome man i love your all designs your art and print work is awesome .

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Hello. My name's Liz Plummer and I'm an artist based in Newport, South Wales, UK, working mostly with fabric. I love dyeing, printing, painting and stitching.
This blog is about the influences on my work, inspiration, my daily life,
and the processes of creating. Enjoy!